Eib will sing

Wednesday

Feb 6, 2013 at 3:15 AM

DOVER — St. Thomas Aquinas High School Senior Meredith Eib was selected to perform in the All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus.

With assistance from her music teacher, Brenda LaForce, Meredith will prepare remarkably challenging music that she will perform under the leadership of prominent conductors in this biennial event. Students will spend three days rehearsing with one of four conductors during the Easter Division Conference of The National Association for Music Education (NAFME) to be held in Hartford, CT in preparation for performances on April 7, 2013.

The NAFME All-Eastern Honors Ensembles, consisting of a concert band, symphony orchestra, mixed chorus, treble voice chorus, and jazz ensemble, are organized by members of The National Association for Music Education. The concert band and symphony orchestra will each have approximately one hundred fifty instrumentalists, the jazz ensemble will have twenty instrumentalists the treble voice chorus will have one hundred twenty vocalists, and the mixed chorus will have approximately three hundred fifty vocalists. Student participation from each state is determined by a percentage of the total NAFME Eastern Division membership, with no state given less than two percent representation.

Each of the state music educators associations in the Eastern Division (CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, PA, VT, Europe) oversee the selection process in their state during the Spring and early Fall of the year before the event and compile ranked lists of recommended juniors and seniors for consideration. The method used to compile the lists varies from state to state, although all recommended students much have participated (or will be participating in) their home all-state festivals.

The committee builds the ensembles from the state presidents’ ranked lists, trying to mimic the state population percentages in each group. The Jazz Ensemble, due to its size and instrumentation, is formed to represent every state in the division.

The 2013 NAFME All-Eastern Honors Ensembles will perform for an audience of thousands on Sunday, April 7, 2013, at the Bushnell Center from the Performing Arts, Mortensen Hall, In Hartford, CT. For program and ticket information please visit www.nafme-eastern.org.